Arcade Game: Pac-Man (1980 Namco (Midway License for US release)) 

Pac-Man is an unforgettable classic.

This is the definition of a timeless video game. Simple, yet addictive.

My late father was so addicted to this game that he ended up in the hospital... no joke. I think he had attended gaming addiction support groups.

The sound of Pac-Man eating and the ghosts floating will NEVER get old :D And it still doesn’t in 2024 :)

Fun fact: All of the ghosts are programmed to act differently, the red one chases the player, the blue one tries to ambush the player, the pink one tries to position itself in a set way and the orange ghost is random.

I remember when this game first came out. I was 10 and I could not wait for school to end so I could go to the local arcade and play it! There was a huge line just to play. You had to be there!

This is a masterpiece of a game. Doesn't get any better than this

43 years on, this 1980 Arcade Original version of PacMan still legendary.

Blinky, the red ghost represents as the leader of the ghosts and is the most aggressive ghost who always chases Pacman directly. Pinky, the pink ghost represents as the only female ghost and is the most beautiful ghost who tries to ambush Pacman in front of her. Inky, the cyan Ghost is the bashful ghost who scares easily. He sometimes chases Pacman aggressively like Blinky. Clyde, the orange ghost is the most stupid ghost who moves in any random directions. He typically retreats when he sees Pacman.

10,000+ points on the first screen is a great score! Thanks for another great classic arcade gameplay my friend. Your channel inspired me to get onboard the retro arcade game train and it's been a blast.

This is amazing, I've never seen pac-man actually go right thru the ghost till now🤔

Some people have no idea how monumental this game was for the industry. This changed the landscape of video games forever, an irreversible evolution.

Me and my friends found this game at the arcade Saturday. we couldn't stop playing it lol. #nostalgia

When I first saw this game at the arcade when I was 14 or so, I had a much different impression of it (social impacts of others at school that I estimate knew about the game) than after I played it the first few times, and again after I read a book of patterns to master it. It looked so simple, but was so freakin hard.

A big it hit when he debuted in arcades in 1980, Pac-Man became the 1st gaming character with merchandise. 2 years later on April 5, 1982, Midway had about and there were close to more than 500 related products 95-105 licenses in the yellow-head's range, including major companies, such as AT&T selling a Pac-Man telephone, including bumper stickers, jewellery, accessories (such as a $20,000 Ms. Pac-Man choker with 14 karat gold), bicycles, books, breakfast cereals, coloring books by Whitman/Golden Books, handheld electronic game imitations, jeans, pillowcases, popsicles, T-shirts, toys, and pasta. But that wasn't all...

even though I wasn't born in the 80's this is still a good game

One of the most addictive games ever ❤️

October 26, 1980. And Toru Iwatani create a character from a singular slice eaten pizza. Many arcade goers were getting psyched up to jettison to arcades, insert coin, and rack up an amazing high score. Plus, tackling that dangerous 9th key. A true icon I’m sure everyone remembers.

My grandfather loved pac man. He was crazy good at it to I remember I could watch him play it for hours on the big ass arcade machine he bought

Brings back so many wonderful memories. Just subbed, keep up the great retro content my friend!

This reminds me of my daily activities trying to survive

When I was kid, we visited NYC. My brother and I stepped into an arcade (several, actually) and virtually all of the Pac-Man and Donkey Kong games were obvious bootlegs. In fact, the DKs were called "Krazy Kong" and the colors were way off. The Pac-Man games used the bell icon from the eleventh level as the actual Pac dude. It didn't have a moving mouth or anything. If felt very NY mob knock-off at the time. Incidentally, my brother and I used to think that the seventh/"lime" level was a hand grenade.

Remember when people loved videogames if they were simply entertaining? Nowadays it's "Does this game have ray tracing?" "How often does the game have frame drops?" "Omg the little nipple hair on my character isn't being reflected on a puddle which noone will likely notice unless you're purposely looking for it." I never understood this mindset tbh and I am absolutely glad I don't have it, if the game is entertaining, then it's good enough for me.

A true classic this game is.

The power pellets give you 10 seconds in the early part of the game. This time is reduced in later levels until the power pellets are just like the rest of the pellets

I remember this arcade game of all time is the one that started it all Pac Man from 1980!!!! 40 years ago I was three years old that's my favorite game of all time!!!! Thanks so much for posting this video!!!!! I love it!!!!!!

They had a pac-man machine at Pastures Youth Centre in Leytonstone, London in the '80s. I was addicted to it.

Admit it, we’ve all played this game once

This was so cool to play in the arcades back in 1980 & still is X)

Well I played it so much in our local arcade in the 80s, that I clocked it and figured out a route system, I used to tease them to come gather at the big do so pac man could swallow them send their eyes back home. But I never had whole levels where they went through me, occasionally on a key level I would glide through on or too, but not complete levels, very odd.

Talk about games from the 2000s all you want but this was the real GOAT.

Here are the Treats that Appear in the Center of the Maze, in Order from the Beginning: Cherries - 100 Points Strawberry - 300 Points Orange - 500 Points Apple - 700 Points Melon - 1,000 Points Boss Ship from GALAXIAN - 2,000 Points Bell - 3,000 Points Key - 5,000 Points

For those of you calling him a cheater, look up world record for Pac man which is 256 levels. It starts glitching a little bit because people were expected to only survive 2-4 levels. It's not cheating because the person who got the WW got a medal PERSONALLY by the creator himself.

By far my favorite arcade game. Mario Bros. '83, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Q-bert, etc are all good, but I never get tired of Pac Man!

Super wideo and game. I very like Pac-Man style games. Thanks for the sharing. Have a beautiful weekend. Best regards, Arturo

I was born in 80 and I am obsessed with the 80s. Best times ever for mankind in the U.S.A.

1985: Happy 5th Anniversary, Pac-Man! 1990: Happy 10th Anniversary, Pac-Man! 1995: Happy 15th Anniversary, Pac-Man! 2000: Happy 20th Anniversary, Pac-Man! 2005: Happy 25th Anniversary, Pac-Man! 2010: Happy 30th Anniversary, Pac-Man! 2015: Happy 35th Anniversary, Pac-Man! 2020: Happy 40th Anniversary, Pac-Man!

Happy 40th anniversary to Pac-man

We luv you Pac Man & don't forget Misses Pac Man , we shall never forget you !! 💙

Before Mario and Donkey Kong there was PAC-MAN and Mr.GameandWatch never forget the classics folks. 40 years since his creation pac man still shines

Pac-Man will forever be legendary.

Pac man is a great game back in the 80s I can't believe it was one of the most popular arcade

Great job shareing this amazing brings back memories from your favorite childhood video games 🎮 keeping up with the great work on your RU-vid channel sending me more of your amazing songs on my YouTaube channel have a great and safe weekend I really enjoying your amazing job 😀 😊

My dad really likes the pac man series and he olso got me a tiny pac man arcade game.

It’s amazing to think that this game came out 43 years ago!

R.I.P. Masaya Makamura 1925 - 2017

Great video of recording guy I have the 12 inch Replica of pac man, all time favorite for this guy.

Thanks for this.. good old days👍

If it wasn't on purpose I'm glad we got to see such a rare glitch, if it was listed as such there would be allot less complaints

I can't believe this game is 40 years old...

This is the greatest Pac Man game play I've ever seen 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

mates Old Classic Retro Gaming my brother i like your videos 📹 keep up the good work as always touch wood god bless you Old Classic retro Gaming my brother mates

I remember playing this at my local laundromat XD

There's messages in every game. Like Pac-Man. Do you know what "Pac" stands for? P-A-C: program and control. He's Program and Control Man. The whole thing's a metaphor. He thinks he's got free will, but really he's trapped in a maze, in a system. All he can do is consume, he's pursued by demons that are probably just in his own head and even if he does manage to escape by slipping out one side of the maze, what happens? He comes right back in the other side. People think it's a happy game. It's not a happy game, it's a fucking nightmare world and the worst thing is, it's real and we live in it. It's all code. If you listen closely, you can hear the numbers.

0:25 Oh I just realized the Ghosts' names are in English.

Truly amazing "Billy Mitchell" style gameplay

Pac-Man is my childhood

What's up with pacman passing right through the ghosts?

Your never forget this playing out across an arcade.

Pac-Man and Donkey Kong truly made history.

A perfect pass-through...😱 Stuff of legends... 5:39

This dude is moving through the ghost like crazy, how is he not getting killed by them

Here are the Bonus Treats, in Order from the Beginning... Cherry - 100 Points Strawberry - 300 Points Orange - 500 Points Apple - 700 Points Melon - 1,000 Points Boss Ship from "Galaxian" - 2,000 Points Bell - 3,000 Points Key - 5,000 Points

This was my first ever game I played. On the Namco plug and play many many years ago. The others were Dig Dug and Rally-X

I love pacman. I even play it on Google and also watched the cartoon of it.

4:04 *TO BE CONTINUED XD* (add the meme there)

I tribute to Judy Bearden. We played many hours at Black Angus. RIP friend.❤️

All smash bros pac man mains stand up for our theme

I played this religious once. I loved it. It is very addictive, once you start. Two players one is cool.

Yep have to salute this all time classic.❤

This is awesome that monsters are not eating him 🤣

Characters: Pac-Man (Yellow Warrior) Blinky (Red Ghost) Pinky (Pink Ghost) Inky (Blue Ghost) Clyde (Orange Ghost)

"Who's that circle guy? And why is he eating our balls?"

I was like 10 yrs old when this game came out in 1982 my older brother had that game

This game is part of my childhood

This dude is a pac man legend

Why is this man trying to avoid the ghost like he isn’t invincible

for the time period, excellent AI though I did notice a slight mistake with the yellow ghost. Pac man when he moves to the far right, the ghost targets bottom left then upper right, when it should be upper right then chase. Still, amazing work namco

I saw a G. I've seen it all. Dope describes my rhymes, making all you emcees cold drop like dimes. You know MCSC is back again, and battling me on the microphone is like committing a sin. Scott/MCSC

I remember my old dentist had a packman arcade game.

No Pac-Man = No childhood Pac-Man Plug & Play = Childhood ✓ Also, in the description, he states: Cheats were used in this game since the game gotten really hard as it progressed and controls did not feel right on an emulator.. I did it to show you some of the cut scenes and the items that pac-man eats.

Still got this game on my phone... Used mame to play it since the arcade machine is nowhere to be found at my place.

the fact that boxer rebellion vets were alive during this time was fucking crazy 😭

I always loved this game, especially the arcade version. However, I never really noticed how annoying the backround sound (the siren sound) is until now and it could be because I am watching this with headphones on. Still, I am wondering if this is to annoy you through the game to not get through the higher levels.

R.I.P. Masaya Nakamura , Pacman's father.

My first favorite game. I used to play pac man in my old neighborhood. I used to beat the high scores.

Love this game & Miss Pac-Man

I played this in my childhood.

5:55 hmmm, yes. Inky hits Pac-Man after he eats power pellet

so good💜

i recently found my parents old ms pac man game system and i’m kinda addicted it’s got me hooked it’s probably better than. the ps4 and all that

Merry Good!!!

5:25 HOW!!!!!!!!!

Cool! Its good. Good gameplay

Stages Treats that Appear in the Center of the Maze Cherry : 100 Points at Level 1 Strawberry : 300 Points at Level 2 Orange : 500 Points at Level 3 and 4 Apple : 700 Points at Level 5 and 6 Melon : 1000 Points at Level 7 and 8 Galaxian Flagship : 2000 Points at Level 9 and 10 Bell : 3000 Points at Level 11 and 12 Key : 5000 Points at Level 13 and above

In 5:43 Wait a second,Pacman hit the ghost but Pacman did'nt died.This is a GLITCH.

I've played pacman before since I was a little kid before

The first real videogame character (regardless of his hilarious genesis - think Pizza, lmao) and he'll always be my favourite :)

Thank God I can play this game on Namco Museum and Pacman World 20th Anniversary.

Intermissions: 5:01, 10:19, 15:46, 21:11, 25:55